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TOP OF THE DAY by Howard Polskin

May. 7, 2026

Greetings! Dept. of Naughty & NICE: Donald Trump wants to rebrand ICE as NICE (National Immigration and Customs Enforcement).  Here are two more apt acronyms from yours truly: ICK (Immigration and Customs Knuckleheads) or PRICC (Presidential Reinforcements for Immigration and Customs Control)… Book news: I love the premise of this new novel published las tmonth. Yesteryear is a high-concept satire about a tradwife influencer who pretends to be a conventional farm housewife for the sake of her money-making social media profile. That is, until she wakes up one morning in 1855 on a hardscrabble farm without electricity and a house full of hungry kids to feed….Nasty but clever: Townhall’s fire-breathing columnist Kurt Schlichter labels Graham Platner the “Oberstoysterfuhrer.” Platner, a Maine Democrat, oyster farmer and Marine vet, is challenging GOP incumbent Senator Susan Collins. For those of you who haven’t followed Platner’s meteoric rise, 20 years ago while in the Marines, he got a tattoo with a Nazi symbol. Platner claims at the time he wasn’t  aware of the tattoo’s Third Reich association and has repeatedly apologized and had the noxious ink covered…More POTUS AI Slop: Trump posted on Truth Social what appears to be an AI-generated drawing of Biden asleep in his pajamas in the Oval Office with Barack Obama (holding an Autopen sign) and Hillary Clinton hovering above  him. A woman (seen mostly offscreen) is signing a proclamation.  Hunter Biden is snorting a white powder off the desk. Seriously Mr. President, don’t you have more important things to do with your time?….More Trump bashing from the right today: The Free Press, the neo-con publication founded by  pro-Zionist CBS News boss Bari Weiss, gives a thumbs down to The Donald’s Strait of Hormuz strategy: Trump Blinks First, blares the on-the-nose headline…If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howar